We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Max Oidtmann, an Assistant Professor of Asian History at Georgetown University Qatar. In 1995, the People’s Republic of China … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Philip Thai’s “China’s War on Smuggling”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: China's War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Philip Thai, an Assistant Professor of History at Northeastern University. Smuggling along the Chinese coast has … [Read more...]
China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Philip Thai (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Smuggling along the Chinese coast has been a thorn in the side of many regimes. From opium and weapons concealed aboard foreign steamships in the Qing dynasty to nylon stockings and wristwatches trafficked in the People’s Republic, … [Read more...]
